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Warn vs Endanger - What's the difference?

warn | endanger |

In lang=en terms the difference between warn and endanger

is that warn is to give warning while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

As verbs the difference between warn and endanger

is that warn is to make (someone) aware of impending danger etc or warn can be (label) to refuse, deny (someone something) while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

warn

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) warnian, from (etyl) . Cognate with German warnen, Dutch waarnen.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
    • We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.
  • To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
    • He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
    Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
  • To notify (someone) of something untoward.
    • I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.
  • To give warning.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, tr. Bible , Galatians II, 9-10:
    • then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
  • * 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow , Penguin 1995, p. 177:
    • She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].
  • * 1988 , Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses , Picador 2000, p. 496:
    • She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.
  • * 1991 , Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer , Jonathan Cape 1992:
    • Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas'', ''The Waltons'', ''Star Trek'' and ''Twin Peaks .
    Usage notes
    * The intransitive sense is considered colloquial by some, and is explicitly proscribed by, for example, the Daily Telegraph style guide (which prefers give warning).
    Derived terms
    * warner * warning * warn off

    Etymology 2

    From a combination of (etyl) wiernan (from (etyl) ; compare Swedish varna).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To refuse, deny (someone something).
  • *:
  • *:And yf thou warne' her loue she shalle goo dye anone yf thou haue no pyte on her / that sygnefyeth the grete byrd / the whiche shalle make the to ' warne her

    • Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    endanger

    English

    Alternative forms

    * endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
  • * Burke
    • All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
  • * 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
    • If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
  • (obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

    Synonyms

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